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The risk pool / Richard Russo.
LIBRA PS3568.U812 R57 1994 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russo, Richard, 1949-
- Series:
- Vintage contemporaries
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage boys--Fiction.
- Teenage boys.
- City and town life.
- New York (State).
- City and town life--New York (State)--Fiction.
- Mohawk (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Mohawk (N.Y.).
- Fathers and sons--Fiction.
- Fathers and sons.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- New York (State)--Mohawk.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 479 pages ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- Vintage contemporaries edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
- Summary:
- A wonderfully funn and perceptive novel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult. His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his auto insurance risk pool. His mother, Jenny, is slowly going crazy from resentment at a husband who refuses either to stay or to stay away. As Ned veers between allegiances to these grossly inadequate role models, Richard Russo gives us a book that overflows with outsized characters and outlandish predicaments and whose vision of family is at once irreverent and unexpectedly moving.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Random House, 1988.
- ISBN:
- 0679753834
- 9780679753834
- 067972334X
- 9780679723349
- OCLC:
- 31000820
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